((Hello everyone, this is GunslingerAngel giving you chapter 2 of The Engineer: Installation. I just want to thank all of you for the reviews that you have given me, especially you eeveekitty85 (thank you soo much, I'm glad you liked it)! Also, I would like to answer a question that must be stuck in everyone's head: Since this is a spin-off, does that mean that there will be no Doctor? My answer is no and that's all I'm going to say because the Doctor will be in this chapter very soon (hint hint wink wink). Anyways, I hope that all of you will enjoy this chapter and please review, I would really like to hear your opinions and other what-not. Please note that I do not own Doctor Who (I've only seen the first season because I'm stuck here in the USA) and the novel The Engineer.))

Key: Thought is /…/ and Speaking is "…"

The Engineer: Installation

Ch. 2: Apocalypse

I can still remember that day like as if it was yesterday…A day that will forever haunt my dreams…

Once all four units had entered into the main facility, the hangar doors started to close behind them. As the doors were closing, the MI units raced through the white hallways of the Omni-Fortress in order to get to their designated positions on time. Kara weaved her way through the people-filled hallways, with Clockworks following behind her, as two other exoskeletons from her unit were closing in on her. It turned out that those two exoskeletons were Jaks and Frida just coming to Kara to wish her luck and to pump her up for the upcoming battle.

"Hey Kar, how's it going?" asked Jaks in a southern accent as he ran by Kara's right side, "are you ready to get some pay back!" Jaks had blue eyes, short red hair that was hidden behind his gray ski-cap, and a green jump suit.

"Yeah," said Kara as she continued weaving through the halls and headed towards the roof elevator, which was already being filled with other members of the 52nd unit and the divided Mechana squadron.

"Huh is that all you're going to say 'Yeah'? I was expecting you to say something a little bit more cheerful like 'Hell's yeah!' or something like that," said Frida, in what sounded like a Spanish accent, while running by Kara's left side. Frida had jet-black hair tied in a braided pony-tail, brown eyes, and a blue jump suit.

"Sorry…It's just that I've got a lot on my mind that's all," said Kara as she slowed her pace to board on the elevator. Jaks and Frida did the same and stood by Kara in the elevator.

"It's going to be okay, Kar… Hey! Tell you what. Once this war is over, how about you, me, and Frida go to my place and fix that stupid grav-jumper of mine!" said Jaks with a smile while the elevator was pulling them up to the roof.

Kara smirked and turned to Frida who replied with a smile, "Planning on using our beloved Kara as slave labor huh? You're just as bad as the Daleks!"

"Hey, I thought I could hit two birds with one stone. You know, help Kara calm down with a little tinkering and get my jumper fixed at the same time. Am I right?" said Jaks in order to defend his plan. Jaks was right, fixing or tinkering with things always seemed to calm Kara down and help her think straight. Her father said that she had the "soul of a true Roboteer" because not that many people would have loved to fix some complex device while have a splitting headache or a tantrum.

Kara nodded with a snicker and said, "Man…You guys let nothing keep you down." After a couple of seconds on the elevator, the doors opened up to a scene that made everyone feel like as if they were in a living hell. The night sky was filled with red and black clouds of smoke and fire with parts of Dalek ships and fleets protruding through the clouds. Already there were numbers of robotic battle suits shooting up to the mass number of Dalek fleets. Massive anti-aircraft machine guns began to aim up towards the ships and fleets and shoot at whatever Dalek they could find. The sound of Kara's heart hammered in her ears, nearly deafening her of all other sounds around her.

"THIS IS IT! COVER THE PERIMETER OF THE ROOF AND ENGAGE THE ENEMY!" shouted unit leader, Farele Jokaz, as he walked towards the front of the group in his exoskeleton. The unit obeyed, filed out of the elevator, and positioned themselves around the roof. Kara and Clockworks stood at one of the corners of the roof. Kara aimed her machine gun and launcher while Clockworks aimed his assault rifle at the approaching Dalek fleets and began to fire. 15 feet away from Kara's exoskeleton was Jaks and Frida doing the same thing along with the other members of the unit, shooting at the enemy and hoping that what they were doing would help give them the advantage to win the battle, but deep down inside they all knew what the Daleks were capable of thus causing them to doubt that they all could pull this off alive.

While Kara and everyone else in the 52nd unit was shooting at what they could find, she heard Farele's voice coming from the communications link, that was on the right side of her operator interface monitor, saying, "Incoming another fleet! They're above our heads. Disengage your current target and engage the oncoming fleet." The unit obeyed and began shooting at the Daleks that were floating above their heads.

Within a few minutes of the fight, Kara and the others began hearing the screams of the dying. Many were actually coming from within the fortress itself. /They've already penetrated the interior...It'll take a while for them to reach here through the elevator/ thought Kara as she hurriedly switched from Dalek to Dalek. She glanced at her ammo count for both her launcher and machine gun and found out that she had run out of ammo. She cursed under her breath in Caprithian and quickly took out her thermo-beam. She aimed at a Dalek's dome by using the transparent visor that was attached to her exoskeleton's head and fired the beam. /Please…Please JUST DIE/ she pleaded angrily in her head. Luckily, the beam did penetrate through the Dalek's shield and melted the dome, causing the Dalek to sway from side to side and then crash into the wall of the fortress. Kara gave out a sigh of relief but was shortly interrupted when she heard the painful screams of Jaks coming from the communications link. She quickly turned around and found his exoskeleton lying on the ground, making no movement at all. Kara started to hyperventilate at the sight. Jaks, one of her best friends, was lying dead before her eyes.

"Kara now's not the time to grieve, you must continue fighting," said Clockworks though the communications link. He was right, she had to move on or else Jaks' death would have been in vain. She had to go on for herself, for Clockworks, for Frida, for her unit, and for everyone else that was fighting the Daleks. Suddenly, she got an idea, quickly turned to Clockworks, and ordered, "Clockworks, I want you to throw a MEMP grenade above our heads."

Clockworks' head snapped to her and replied, "What! I cannot throw such a device without a specified target, not only that but the target must be…"

But he was cut off by Kara yelling almost hysterically, "JUST TRUST ME AND DO IT!"

Clockworks nodded, grabbed a MEMP grenade, and looked to the sky. The sky was swarming with Daleks and robotic battle suits, but there were more Daleks than battle suits who were falling from the sky like flies. He finally understood Kara's idea, pressed the button, and threw it up into the sky. Within a few seconds the grenade blew up and a ring of electricity expanded from the blast and began to hit at whatever laid in its path. Kara's idea worked and yet failed at the same time because the EMP field not only made the Daleks that were within the ring's path fall to their death but also the battle suits as well.

"I'm so sorry…I'm so sorry everyone, "she whispered with grief. She tried to fight back the tears but a few started to come down her eyes.

"At least they died as heroes and not as cowards," said Clockworks through the link as he dropped his empty assault rifle and began shooting with his shotgun. Kara nodded in agreement and began to once again shoot at the Daleks with her thermo-beam.

Meanwhile, Frida realized that she too had run out of ammo and had no choice but to resort to her thermo-beam. She aimed at a nearby Dalek's dome and shoot. Within a couple of seconds the Dalek's dome was melted away. Frida gave a small cheer of joy but then realized that the Dalek was still flying towards her and it had its ray gun aimed right at her. Frida quickly dropped her gun in fear, turned and ran to Kara, and screamed out her name. Kara ceased fire and saw Frida running towards her. Her eyes widened as she saw the melted Dalek still coming after Frida with its ray gun aimed at her. "FRIDA BEHIND YOU!" screamed Kara but it was too late. With the Dalek's last ounce of life, it shot Frida with its ray and finally crashed to the floor of the roof, creating a big hole that showed the 3rd floor of the fortress.

Kara just froze there as she gazed upon Frida's dead corpse. She was devastated at seeing her friend die right before her eyes and at the fact that she wasn't able to do a thing to help or even save her. Her eyes then caught sight of the hole which revealed an even more gruesome scene. Thousands of bodies, both real and robotic, were lying all over the floor dead or offline. That was when the doubt deep within her grew and changed into fear. That and the grief and devastation of losing both of her friends overtook her, making her unable to move her body. The only thing that she could move was her eyes which watched the remaining members of her unit become exterminated one by one by the overwhelming Dalek force that was coming from both the air and the elevator, and the flames that were beginning to spread around and within the fortress. She was so overwhelmed with fear and grief that she hardly noticed a Dalek heading straight for her from the elevator until it was almost too late. She finally came to her senses, saw the Dalek right in front of her, aimed it with her beam, and shouted while she shoot, "DIE! DIE! DIE!"

The Dalek's dome melted and it finally stopped but there was another Dalek flying from her left shouting in a monotone, "EX-TER-MI-NATE!" Kara quickly snapped to her left but it was too late, the Dalek had already aimed its ray gun at her and was about to shoot her. Just then, Clockworks went in-between the ray-gun and Kara, hoping that his body might take the beam and not her. When the Dalek finally fired, Clockworks jumped in front of Kara and was hit by the beam. A majority of his left side shattered into pieces and flew towards all directions, including Kara. Pieces of shrapnel hit the left side of her body, causing her exoskeleton to fall on its back. Clockworks landed on top of her and held on to her tightly with his only arm, hoping to shield her from anymore Dalek attacks with his body.

"Close your eyes, Kara," said Clockworks as he held on to her.

"But why?" she cried from not only the pain of the shrapnel in her body but also of Clockworks' sacrifice and everything else that had happened during the battle.

"I want you to have that 5 percent chance," said Clockworks and rested his head against the right side of Kara's face.

Kara shut her eyes tightly and started to cry uncontrollably. She zipped opened her left pocket, took out the pictures of her friends and family, and held on to them tightly in her left hand, ignoring the pain coming from both her left hand and arm. As she and Clockworks laid there on the floor of the roof, she heard the bombs, missiles, bullets, and screams of her people being overcome by the monotone voices and beams of the Daleks. It was the end of the Caprithian race, the end of the Roboteers who were once a proud and well-known race that accepted robots and all forms of AI as equals.

Kara wanted this all to be just a bad dream, she wanted to wake up from this and find her parents alive and greeting her with smiles and bear hugs. She just wanted to wake up to find everybody alive and to realize that everything was just a bad dream…But this wasn't a dream. The sounds she heard, the pain she was feeling right now from the shrapnel in her body, and the bodies she saw through the hole and on the battlefield were all real. This was real and there was nothing that could change it back, nothing.

/Please…Please…Stop it…Someone? Anyone? Please make this pain go away…Please make this nightmare stop…/ she pleaded in her head.

She thought that no on could hear her since this plea was in her head, but she was wrong. After a couple of seconds she heard the voice of a man speaking to her in her head in what sounded like a British accent. /Hang on!...I'm coming, don't give up!...Please don't give up living…Hang on just a little while longer…I'm coming for you/ said the British man inside her head.

Kara looked up to the skies, unaware of how long she and Clockworks had laid there, and saw that the Daleks had finally left, but she could still see their ships flying through the clouds or at least that was what she thought. She blinked and took a longer look at the ships. She then realized that they were not the Daleks' ships but actually Gallifreian ships flying through the clouds. She took in a deep breath, once again ignoring the pain in her left side. The Time Lords had finally come…

/Are you alright? Are you in any pain at all/ asked the British man in Kara's head.

She ignored his questions and instead replied with a smile on her face/Thank you for coming…Please hurry…Save what is left of us...Please save us. /

((So how was that? Do any of you guys happen to know who that British man was that was communicating Kara through her thoughts? I hope you guys enjoyed or at least liked this chapter and are looking forward to chapter 3, The Lonely Angel and the Broken Angel. Please review! Also, for those of you who are kind of confused at what some of these terms are, such as grav-jumper and MEMP grenade, do not worry because at the end of every Engineer story that I make, I'm going to make a bonus page called Gadgets, Gizmos, and Other What-Not. So at the end of this fanfic, I will make a page that will hopefully help clarify your confusion. Thank you and please stay tuned for Ch. 3!))